ῥαίω
Ἐρωτώμενος διὰ τί ὀλίγους ἔχει μαθητάς, ἔφη ὅτι ἀργυρέᾳ αὐτοὺς ἐκβάλλω ῥάβδῳ → When asked why he had so few pupils, he replied ‘I chase them away with a silver stick (Diogenes Laertius 6.4.5, on the philosopher Antisthenes)
English (LSJ)
poet. subj.
A ῥαίῃσι Od.5.221: fut. ῥαίσω (διαρ-) 2.49; Ep. inf. ῥαισέμεναι (v.l. ῥαίσεσθαι) 8.569: aor. ἔρραισα, subj. ῥαίσῃ 23.235:— Pass., fut. (in med. form) ῥαίσομαι (διαρ-) Il.24.355: aor. ἐρραίσθην 16.339:—break, shiver, shatter, ῥ. νῆα wreck a ship, Od.8.569, 13.151, 23.235; ῥ. τινά cause one to suffer shipwreck, 5.221:—in Pass., ῥαιόμενος suffering shipwreck, 6.326; νηῦς ῥαισθεῖσα A.R.2.1112; also φάσγανον ἐρραίσθη it was shivered, Il.16.339; τῷ κέ οἵ ἐγκέφαλός γε διὰ σπέος . . ῥαίοιτο πρὸς οὔδεϊ his brain would be dashed on the ground throughout the cavern, Od.9.459; so αἰὼν δι' ὀστέων ἐρραίσθη the marrow spurted through the bones, Pi.Fr.111. II generally, destroy, A.R.1.617:—Pass., to be broken down, crushed by suffering, ὅταν . . ῥαισθῇ A.Pr.191, AP7.529 (Theodorid.), etc. (anap.), cf. S.Tr.268.
